Conveyer toy



Sept. 27, 1932. p YDELICH 1,879,845

CONVEYER TOY Filed Feb. 25, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l P. DELICH CONVEYER TOY Sept. 27, 1932.

Filed Feb. 25, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet '20 ment of the invention;

Patented Sept. 27, 1932 v a-111511) STATES PATENT OFFICE PETER DELICILOF DULUTH, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR 01* THIRTY PER CENT TO R'U'DOLPB I Z VOKOVAN, OF DULUTH,'1-/EI1 TNESOTA l l i CONVEYER TOY Application filed February 25, 1932. Serial No. 595,196.

This invention relates to mechanical toys and has special reference to one designed for the manipulation of granular material such as sand, salt or the like. l The principal object is to produce an interesting toy of this character and one having novel characteristics pertaining to the manipulation of such granular material.

Another object is to introduce within such atoy a representation of animated animal life. w Other objects and advantages of the inventioniwill appear inthe following description thereof.

Referring now'to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of one embodi- Figure 2 is an enlarged perspective view one of the metal conveyer buckets, Figure 3 is a similar view of an auxiliary dog tripping attachmentfor one of the conveyer chains;

Figure 4c is a top plan view of Figure 1 Figure 5 is a somewhat reduced perspective view of the toy; and

Figureo is a perspective View of another one of the conveyor buckets. I

The dev ce here illustrated embodying the invention comprises two substantially rectangularly shaped upstanding compartments 1 and 2, preferably made of suitable sheet metal such as galvanized iron or the like, in fact the entire toy may be of such material. The base portions of the compartments 1 and 2 are connected by a doublestepped platform the upper portion 3 of which may be used as a storage space for toy vehicles or the like while that portion a has a runway 5 at either extremity thereof, and this platform may be either the full width of the toy or less if preferred as here shown.

The upper and rearmost portions of 'th compartments 1 and 2 are connected as by an open topped trough-like runway 6, the same being designed for the housing of an inclined conveyer chain as illustrated at 7,-th'ere being a somewhat similar conveyor chain in the compartment 1 and illustrated at 8. This latter conveyer is disposed at an incline and carried upon the two transverse shafts 9 and 10, the uppermost shaft being the drive shaft and equipped with a suitable crank 11 for rotating same. Upon the shaft 9 is also mounted a smaller conveyer chain 12 which leads directly downwardly to acountershaft 13 carrying the bevelled gear 14 thereupon which meshes with a like bevelled gear 15 upon a shaft disposed at right angles to the shaft 13 and carrying the lower end of the conveyer belt7. r

The opposite'or upper end of the conveyor belt '7 is mounted upon the shaft 16 in the upper end of the compartment 2,; and, .of course, upon all of these shafts are suitable chain engaging and carrying sprocket wheels, not especially illustrated, they forming no particular part of the present invention. Y

The lower forward end of the compartment 1 is provided with an inclined bottom as at 17 and which inclination extends elearto the rearmost wall of said compartment, forming a storage compartment therebeneath and-providing means for any granular material falling from the mechanism above same natural-- ly feeding by gravity to the lower forward end of the compartment 1 in which the con-- veyer belt 8 functions. This belt is equipped with any desired number of buckets 18 likened'to those shown in Figure 6 for the conveyance of granulargmaterial fed into the lowermost forward end of the compartment, 1 upwardly above andinto the hopper like bin 19, the lower extremity of which bin is directly above the lowermost end of the conveyer belt 7. The initial feeding of the granular material to the belt 8 is accom plished as by being forced through a suitable opening 20 just above the, horizontal portion of the platform 4, it being first dumped upon this platform as by the manipulation of a toy vehicle carrying same, or otherwise as the player elects. 9

The lower end of the hopper 19 is provided with a discharge openingor port 21 controlled by the slide 22 automatically reciprocated by the lever 23 pivoted on the transverse shaft 24 mounted in the walls-of I00 one of the lugs 26 carried by its auxiliary link 27 on the chain 7 reaches and engages the laterally extending flange 28 on the lever 26 1t Will force the lever 23 to a position as in Fi 'ure 1 that is with its head 29 bumnin the inner side wall, of the Compartment. 1 as a stop when obviously granular material within the hopper 19 will flow through the regi tering openings of the bottom of the hopper and slide 22, thus furnishing a charge or quantity of the material to one of the buckets 29 on the belt 7. But the instant the lug 26 has passed from eneath the flange 28 of the lever 26 the lever 29 will fall back wardly closing the slide 22 andstop the flow of material from the hopper 19 until the operation is repeated by the appearance of another lug 26 and another-bucket 29 following same in proper relation to receive the charge from thehopper 19. v V

' ihe lever 23 is provided at its lower end with a finger 30 operating within a suitable slot in the inner end of the slide 22 and upon its upper end has pivotally' attached as at 3l'the front pivoted s of a toy animal such V23. as the dog like figure illustrated at 32, and

whosehind legs are pivoted on a transverse shaft 33 many desired manner. T This animals tail and tongue I prefer to mount pivot-' ally so that these may wiggle or flop at will, thus, when the lever 23 is operated as described, the animal figure will become animated and appear life-like, shaking his tail and wiggling his tongue. In this manner the'toy is made more interesting to children anddesigried to attract same to the operation of the toy, and, as is obvious, the animal may be of any desired design and representative of different kinds of animals, or a number may be thus simultaneously actuated.

A novel feature about the buckets 29 and the lug carrying links 27, as well as the buckets 18, is that they are designed to overlap a link of the chain to which they are mounted and are pivotally attached to the pivotal joints of the links. While this is novel and convenient, of course the invention does not reside wholly therein. By the operation of the device justdescribed, it is apparent that the granular material conveyed upwardly to the hopper 19 by the belt 8 is intermittently fed to the conveyer belt-7, and by this latter conducted to the upper portion of the compartment 2. This compartment, being provided with the inclined bottom 34- extending from the rear to the foremost'face of said compartment but above the entrance 35 in the forward wall thereof, receives same therein, and the material may be fed from the foremost lower end thereof as by gravity through the platform a and unloaded; this process of course being subject to endless variation of operation and result as suits the particular 'fancy'of the player, and providing an exceedingly interesting and instructive toy, subject of course to modifications within the scope of the appended claims.

-Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: r v

1. A mechanical toy of the type described comprising inclined compartments, a hopper in one of the compartments, an endless bucket chain for elevating and dumping material into said hopper, and a second endless bucket chain for receiving material intermittently from said hopper and dumping it into an other compartment, said second bucket chain having meansfor causing said hopper to intermittently dump material thereon. H

2. A mechanical toycomprising a plurality of inclined compartments disposed at right angles to one another, a hopper in one of said compartments, an inclined endless conveyer in one of the compartments communicating with the-lower end of one and the upper end of another of said compartments for conveying material from one to the other of said last mentioned compartments, and means for causing said hopper to intermittently discharge material onto said conveyer.

A mechanicaltoy comprising inclined compartments spaced at right angles to each other, an endless conveyer in one of the compartments and communicating with each of the other compartments by extending thereinto, ahopper in one of said compartments above one end of said conveyor, means for elevating material into said hopper, and means for intermittently discharging materialfrom said hopper onto said conveyer.

4:. A mechanical toy of the class described comprising an inclined compartment, an inclined conveyer belt in said compartment for elevating material therein, a hopper into which said conveyer belt dumps, a second inclined conveyerdisposed at right angles to said first mentioned conveyer and having its lower end positioned under said hopper and adapted to receive material intermit- 

